Archive for the ‘Business Processes’ Category

Visit to Tsinghua University – Aug 2011

Friday, September 9th, 2011

This week I returned from a two weeks long visit at the BPM group at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where I was invited by Prof. Jianmin Wang, Assistant Dean of School of Software.

This year Tsinghua University is celebrating a 100 years anniversary. With its more than 37 000 students, it is one of the larger and and well-reputed universities in Kina.

During my stay I also attended the first Chinese BPM conference. The high point of the conference was the keynote speech “BPM: Quo Vadis? Future Research Directions” given by Arthur ter Hofstede from QUT.

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BPM for E-services

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

This week we submitted a paper titled “Business Process Management for Open E-services in Local Government” to the BPM track in the Australian Conference on Information Systems. The paper describes the prototype which we developed for the Open Social Services (ÖST) project. More generally it discusses the use of business process technology for the development of e-services. A preprint of the paper can be found here.

The work was carried out in cooperation with Dr. David Truffet from Australia and Gustaf Juell-Skielse (DSV). I met David during my visit at QUT last summer, which coincided with his own visit there. Similarly to me, David believes in the YAWL open-source initiative carried out by the BPM group at QUT and invests (among other through the establishment of a consulting company for YAWL) on spreading out the research results and YAWL to industry and official sector.

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Project proposal to the Swedish Research Council (VR)

Monday, May 31st, 2010

The project proposal which Paul, Martin, Birger and myself submitted to the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) this year can be found here (VR10-main.pdf). It is an improvement from our proposal from last year. The objective is to research on the integration of Business Process Management Systems (BPMSs) with social software (SoS).

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Business Process Management with Social Software: An Integrated Technology for Work Organisation

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Today, Paul, Birger, Martin and I submitted a project application to the Swedish Research Council.

Abstract:
Software support for well structured business processes is today provided through workflow technology
and process management tools. Tailored to support well structured processes, these tools do not provide
adequate support for loosely structured work activities such as knowledge intensive processes. This type of work
is heavily reliant on professional knowledge, deals with large amounts of data and tasks that can be redone several
times. The purpose of the project is to bring together state-of-the-art research in business process management
systems and social software to design services and methodology for supporting loosely structured processes. This
architecture will enable flexible process enactment, configurable and context-aware user interfaces, and service
based task support.

VR09-ProjectDescription.pdf
VR09-PopularDescription.pdf

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Dr. Chun Ouyang’s visit at DSV – 17-21 Nov 2008

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Last week Dr. Chun Ouyang from the BPM group at QUT visited us. She used the opportunity to stop over in Stockholm after her conference trip to the 6th IEEE European Conferecne on Web Services held 12-14 November in Dublin.

Chun is known for her work on mapping BPMN to BPEL and BPEL to Petri nets. Recently Chun has been involved in the implementation of YAWL4Film. YAWL4Film is an extension of YAWL for supporting the film production process in the film industry in Australia. At DSV Chun gave a very interesting and inspiring presentation of this work. More about it can be read here.
Chun’s visit is a continuation of our cooperation with the BPM group at QUT, which I regularly visit (latest in July-August 2008).

During Chun’s one week stay at DSV we worked on:
– Migration of YAWL4Film and the Conference case to the new release of YAWL, YAWL 2.0
– A new project proposal at QUT, which will be related to our project proposal on Service Oriented Architecture for Knowledge Intensive Processes– The book chapters for the YAWL book in which we are involved.

Thanks for your visit Chun!

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